Content aware image resizing

[Tuolumne]

Follow this link for a video featuring an amazing new content-aware image sizing technology that was presented at Siggraph 2007. The bounds of digital image manipulation have taken a quantum leap forward.

http://go2web2.blogspot.com/2007/08/fascinating-content-aware-image.html

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[colinh]

My brother sent me a link to this last week. It really is very clever. Wonder why I didn't think of it? Must be because I didn't feel a need for it 🙂

colin

 

[rogue_designer]

We had a good discussion about this in a design/AD forum, and here at the office.

My take summary:

that's really scary - from a photographer's perspective.

On the one hand, I guess it's good in that it preserves the primary image purpose in a wide range of sizes and layouts...

But on the other hand, it can totally misrepresent spacial relationships and there is not a clear indicator that the image has been modified, which is worrisome.

Interesting though. The adaptive paths are really very cool to see in operation.

 

[RML]

Disturbing, really. But nifty. I can see there are applications aplenty for this technology.

 

[mike goldberg]

I'm not against technology. Digital manipulation of images has been around for awhile. I am glad tho' there's a bunch like us, shooting in B/W, developing film, and presenting images resized and lightly edited... such as with brightness and contrast tweaking. For me, these images are real.

Stretching, shrinking and manipulating images along "energy lines" may be useful in a graphic arts studio. And, as noted above, it's a bit scary. So, what's for real, anymore?
Mike

 

[matt fury]

Saw this a few days ago. Pretty impressive. Doesn't scare me much as it's a given at this point that almost anything can be done to a digital image.